The Political Economy of Empire Symposium
Papers and agenda to be announced
PIPE Workshop: Michael Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
TOPIC TBA
Michael Andrews is assistant professor of economics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in Innovation Policy at the National Bureau of Economic Research and in the economics department at Northwestern University.
Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
PIPE Workshop: Bocar Ba, Duke University
Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
We develop an empirical model of the mechanism used to assign police officers to Chicago districts and examine the efficiency and equity of alternative allocations.
Explaining Rural Conservatism
PIPE Workshop: Aditya Dasgupta, UC Merced
Description
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains
Rural areas are conservative electoral strongholds in the United States and other advanced capitalist economies. But this was not the case historically. What explains the rise of rural conservatism?
Timely election administration and technology symposium draws leading scholars
Going into the 2020 election, popular fear of interference, fraud, or election meddling, means that leveraging the tools of rigorous social science is as important as ever.
Participants in the USC Bedrosian Center’s Symposium on Election Administration and Technology skillfully brought data, theory, and logic to bear on questions often driven by reflexive fear, anger, or confusion.
Understanding Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
by Nathan K. Micatka and Nicholas Napolio On December 4, 2018, a group of scholars gathered at the University of Southern California to present research and perspectives on foreign policy in the age of Trump. Some important questions addressed in the symposium were: whether and to what extent Trump is similar or different Read more…
Scholars convene on methods and trends in subnational policy making research
“The study of state and local politics has taken off over the last decade. Data, methods, and research interests have evolved. There are a variety of important questions that can’t be examined well at the Federal level, because of severe case limitations. But scholars can get leverage on these questions Read more…